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I was really doubtful using the van der waals equation because most of the problems I encountered used this equation and it just so happened that all of them involved gases though I wasn't sure if van der waals was just limited to real gases. I thought it was a general equation. :) I tried...

Homework Statement How do you express work in an isothermal increase of pressure of a solid in terms of the initial and final pressure? Homework Equations van der waals equation W=Integral of PdV (P-na/v^2)(v-nb)=nKT P=pressure V=volume n=number of molecules(constant)...